Epic of Caterpillar

On his Divine Realm, Geggoron growled in pain, bearing the pain that Habitis and his split soul merged with her went through while being devoured by Kireina.

All of that only to receive just a small amount of information about Kireina.

But even then, it was quite frightening.

"So, she hasn't gone all out when she fought Nari and Wariner…? Just how many abilities does she had down her sleeve? How many trump cards does its abnormality possess?! She is capable of manipulating several magic attributes, to destroy barriers using 'Divinity Devouring' and to create weapons out of thin air which she can manipulate with some kind of Telekinesis…" muttered Geggoron.

Although the fight with Habitis and Kireina was not on his plans, he decided to make the most out of it by using it to gather more information about Kireina… but the problem is that she always seemed like an endless abyss.

She would always come out with new powers and abilities that Geggoron never saw before. She would always have several plans in motion and schemes.

And she even gave herself the pleasure of playing around with Habitis without any hint of seriousness.

Geggoron knew that she was slowly going towards Moonfang…

"Is she trying to take over the Kingdom and then go to Sunclaw? Should I unleash the war right away then…? In Moonfang, the entire royal family are my pawns, merged with my split souls… should I let Kireina fight them and see if she is capable of beating all of them at once? Or should I stir chaos in a war, and let her lose focus and be easily surprised with attacks from all sides?"

Geggoron considered every possible situation. If he were to force war to confuse Kireina and kill her from both sides, it would certainly be the best course of action… however, the losses of the war would also be many, perhaps too many.

If Geggoron ends up without any strong mortal pawns after that and with barely any cultists to offer him sacrifices… then he will begin to weaken, having to look for a new place to call his 'home' and find sacrifices and worship.

Geggoron had worked for many years in Moonfang and Sunclaw to make them the perfect places to receive worship and sacrifices to nourish himself and gather Divine Energy… all the time and effort, alongside resources that he put into it, would be completely lost.

However, the benefits of killing and eating Kireina, obtaining her powers, and all of that was just as tentative…

But that was if he were to win. There were always chances for everything, no matter how much he prepared, there was always a chance of failure.

And such chance grew bigger and bigger as he considered how endlessly deep was Kireina's foundation. Her powers and abilities broke most laws of what was believed as 'normal' for mortals.

"Hmmm… war could be the safest method of killing her… the one with the greatest chance. If things end up bad for me, I will have to escape! As long as she does not reach my Divine Realm, she cannot damage me… so I can try and use all my pawns until the very last… and if nothing can do… I will have to give up on it, for now, escape, and nourish myself somewhere else…" muttered Geggoron.

"However, for war, preparations are needed, and many at that. I will not be able to start it all out of a sudden, trapping Kireina in the middle of both Kingdoms armies… and her presence is strangely wronging stronger… her power over dreams… Hm? What is that cloud of dreams?"

As Geggoron considered his next course of action, he noticed a cloud of dreams in the sky.

"Just what is that?! Is that… Kireina is controlling it?!"

Kireina was deep within her dreams… however Geggoron was too frightened of her by now to even interfere with them with his powers.

After all, she had obtained the ability to manipulate nightmares and dreams to an even greater extent after she obtained the 'Nightmare Magic' Skill, courtesy of Geggoron's foolishness.

"Hateful! Will she dethrone me from my authority over nightmares now?! Grraaahh! Hateful! Hateful!"

Geggoron began to rage fiercely around his Divine Realm… although for Kireina, he would resemble a toddler getting angry over not getting what he wanted, crying pathetically.

"There is no point in letting her grow anymore by eating my pawns one by one! War is it!" shouted Geggoron, commanding all of his Split Souls to begin the preparations for a fierce war between Kingdoms.

As if they were robots, both Royal Families began to prepare everything, alerting its army, soldiers, citizens…

Geggoron plan was incredibly simple, he planned for both Beast Kingdoms to fight to the death, all of the citizens were included, even the weak villagers… of course, he hadn't managed to brainwash every single citizen, so his pawns needed to order the thousands of people around for it to be done as he desired. This is why it would take time, even if he only needed to tell his pawns to 'do it'.

"If I could have brainwashed the entire Kingdoms… But even I have my limits, I can split my soul and divinity because of the special component of my existence, my species are capable of dividing themselves like this… This is one of my advantages, something that I have above Kireina who can seemingly divide herself into only two! With this power of mine, I shall wage war between my puppet Kingdoms! If her main mission is to rescue them, let us see how good she does when every citizen is trying to aimlessly kill each other!" laughed Geggoron.

Suddenly, Geggoron was alerted by one of his Split Souls!

"Main body, main body!"

"What is it?! Don't you see that I am busy?!" shouted Geggoron.

"Main body, Kireina has entered Moonfang's walls! She's infiltrating the citadel and is closing in the castle already!" shouted his split soul.

"What?! Impossible! I could not see her- Agh! That damned Mirage Magic of hers! Who could have known that it was capable of even deceiving gods! Alert all my pawns, tell them to get ready! And handle them these artifacts!" shouted Geggoron, he had no more time to leisurely sit on his Divine Realm, Kireina was constantly breaking his expectations of what she would do!

Geggoron split the artifacts he had created and the ones given to him by Athena, having no choice than to use some of them into the pawns in the Moonfang Kingdom to get some kind of boost in strength, in hopes for Kireina's defeat if they all worked together as a team.

[Day 238]

[Kireina] gained +50 Skill Points and Subclass Skill Points due to the prayers of your believers!] (Added!)

[Kireina] gained 102.725.992.900 EXP due to the prayers of your believers!]

[LEVEL 080/250] [EXP 686.395.047.420/990.000.000.000]

The weird dreams came back last night, but I gained a few new skills from them, such as Calamity Abyss Demon Thread, Horns, and its Brain and Heart… though the names seem bizarre, they seem to be straight fusions and upgrades from the original skills that made them.

For the Brain and the Heart, they were created from most of my Sin of Lust Skills. This did not mean that I cannot use them again, as by activating this skill, I can activate their effects, they seemed to have been amplified.

I was also able to summon heart and brains, which had some interesting functions. However, they shined the best when I merged them with the other Calamity Abyss Demon Skills, strengthening my shapeshifting.

I am still gathering more of these skills… but it seems that they all want to be 'completed' with more body parts. I wonder what more is needed… perhaps its torso and legs? Or wings? Eyes? I think I could make them up by fusing skills, but I feel like I should leave that to my dreams.

They seem to strengthen my skill fusions, though I need to level those skills to the max level for these dreams to trigger, it seems.

I decided to divide my first body back in my Empire and use this third body created to practice all of my eye skills, killing monsters endlessly inside the dungeon. This should start leveling those skills quickly.

Oh, and last night, it seems that most of those blessed by me obtained a strange new skill that summons a part of my soul to their bodies named 'Grotesque Calamity Demon Familiar Possession'.

I discovered it when I was sleeping, Amiphossia was the first one to discover and activate the skill, she was then 'possessed' by one of my split souls, which greatly enhanced her capabilities, increasing her Magic and MP the most.

Each Split Soul had minds of their own but was greatly connected with mine, to the point that if I focused enough, I would share their same minds. They were something remarkably similar to Split Minds, and even some of them would be called into the possessions.

This skill was not only a good buff, but it could also be used to communicate with a lot of people at the same time.

However, it only lasted for around ten minutes before going into an hour cooldown. But if leveled up enough, it should be capable of lasting more.

A lot of my citizens were using the skill already all the time, especially when they were fighting in dungeons and training. If I focused enough, I was able to see many of them fighting and leveling up, I felt a bit omniscient for a second.

All of my wives began to use it right away the moment they woke up and found the skill added to their status screen.

"I can be with Masta forever now, guu!" said Rimuru.

"This feels… a bit weird, but the boost in magic and MP is very useful," said Brontes.

"Indeed~ It also feels nice to be one with Honey, even if not physically, through souls is fine too!" said Zehe.

"You're right, Zehe~ Fufufu, being with Kireina-sama like this! It's really exhilarating!" said Nesiphae, hugging herself with her four arms.

"I think it's a bit embarrassing though…" muttered Sofarpia.

"Y-Yeah, I think so too… Kireina-sama is really 'inside' us? Ah… I shouldn't have such impure thoughts so early in the morning" said Sofelaia.

"One with Kireina-sama! This is probably the best gift in my entire life!" said Alice, happily.

"Now we can do devilish things as one, my beloved Kireina, hohohoho!" said Acelina, laughing devilishly.

"It's a bit odd… but it is nice to have my magic power increased, I feel like my Mana is being constantly refilled," said Ismena.

"Ah, well, I am glad that you girls like it… though I wonder why I don't feel any headache, even when connecting my mind with all of the ones possessing your body…" I wondered.

Although, no matter how many people used it at the same time, I seemed to have no problems. I did not feel mentally tired or had soul fatigue.

I remember that in my dreams, I met thousands and thousands of grotesque creatures that had a lot of resemblance to me… were these the split souls that possess my blessed people?

I cannot seem to attribute them to anything else…

After we had a nice breakfast and an improvised bath, which I did by manipulating large amounts of water and warming it with 'Heat Manipulation', we went back to Led Zeppelin.

"Master, welcome back," said Led Zeppelin, with a robotic and feminine voice.

"Anything strange in the sky?" I asked.

"Nothing odd, those that had dared to come had been successfully exterminated. Although they were only a few birds and a wyvern" said Led Zeppelin.

"Well, as long as you gain Experience Points… Anyways, let's rush towards the Moonfang Kingdom's center, we had cleaned most of the outskirts, and I had already detected that the remaining villages are filled with monstrosities pretending to be villagers, so there is no need in rescuing them. Let us not fall over Geggoron's schemes, he probably wants us to waste time."

"Immediately, Master. Using max energy capacity, Mana Nucleus Core activated,"

Like a flash of bright white and yellow light, Led Zeppelin flew through the sky, almost breaking the wind itself.

Flash!

We would be arriving at Moonfang's citadel in a few minutes. Hopefully, what awaits us is not disappointing, fufufu.

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